Henry Lafont dies.

Henry Lafont, the last Free French fighter pilot of the Battle of Britain sadly died on Friday 2 December 2011. He will be buried with full military honours in Les Invalides in Paris on Wednesday 7th December.
Henry and René MOUCHOTTE (who was the only non-Commonwealth officer to command a British Squadron) escaped from North Africa in the same stolen aircraft to Gibraltar in 1940, and then by boat to England to join the RAF.